Creates a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in quarto.yml.

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Install New Notebook

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill new-notebook -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills new-notebook --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/new-notebook .claude/skills/new-notebook && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
new-notebook
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~361 tokens
SKILL.md length
143 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Creates a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in quarto.yml.

  • Works in 6 steps: Parse the name and title from the… → Check notebooks/ for existing notebooks… → Create the .ipynb file in notebooks/ with → …
  • Adding a new notebook
  • SKILL.md covers Arguments and Steps
  • Calls uv

What it does

New Notebook is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Creates a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in quarto.yml. Use when adding a new notebook.

Its SKILL.md is about 360 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Jupyter notebooks. It works with Jupyter. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Adding a new notebook
  • Tasks that involve Jupyter notebooks

Example prompts

  • “Use the new-notebook skill to create a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in quarto.yml”
  • “/new-notebook”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Parse the name and title from the arguments. Follow the naming convention: notebook-NN.ipynb (sequential numbering)
  2. Check notebooks/ for existing notebooks to determine the next number
  3. Create the .ipynb file in notebooks/ with
  4. Create the Jupytext .md pair by running: uv run jupytext --set-formats ipynb,md:myst notebooks/.ipynb
  5. Register the notebook in _quarto.yml under manuscript.notebooks
  6. Confirm the notebook renders: quarto render notebooks/.ipynb

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Bash
    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Glob
    • Grep

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • uv

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

New Notebook loads about 361 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 32 tokens; SKILL.md has 143 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~32
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~361

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 143 words (~361 tokens).

“Create a new Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and register it in the manuscript.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
new-notebook
allowed-tools
Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep
argument-hint
<name> <title>

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/new-notebook of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about New Notebook

What does New Notebook do?

Creates a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in quarto.yml. New Notebook is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.yml.

When should I use New Notebook?

New Notebook fits situations like: adding a new notebook; tasks that involve Jupyter notebooks.

How do I install New Notebook in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill new-notebook -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/new-notebook in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/new-notebook in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install New Notebook in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill new-notebook -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/new-notebook in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/new-notebook in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use New Notebook in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill new-notebook -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/new-notebook, .gemini/skills/new-notebook, .github/skills/new-notebook and .opencode/skills/new-notebook in your project.

What does New Notebook need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, New Notebook needs the command-line tools its instructions call (uv). Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep.

Does New Notebook access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use uv, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is New Notebook safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does New Notebook use?

New Notebook has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does New Notebook use?

About 361 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to New Notebook?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with New Notebook: Jupyter Notebook (microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners, 77k stars), Notebook For Experiment (JetBrains/intellij-community, 21k stars), Jupyter To Marimo (ericmjl/llamabot, 183 stars) and Nbreview (awdeorio/dotfiles, 102 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains New Notebook?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,542 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.